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What he promises but doesn't deliver (in either volume) is a "human" Madison. Perhaps no biographer could. The Father of the Constitution was once described as a man who never said or did an indiscreet thing. And though Brant is scornful of those who have established his hero as a "disembodied brain," he has exhumed nothing that resembles flesh & blood. Madison was a prodigious worker, a great student of government and one of the best-read men of his time. But most readers will find him a pretty cold fish who swam best in muddy political waters. Brant...
JAMES MADISON: THE NATIONALIST (484 pp.) - Irving Brant - Bobbs-Merrill...
...liquor, sugar, and fruit and gave his barber $1,020. Madison was neither rich nor extravagant. Like others of his poor but patriotic colleagues, he hardly knew where his next bale of inflationary paper money was coming from. In terms of hard coin, figures Biographer Irving Brant, Madison was living at the modest rate...
James Madison: The Nationalist is Volume II of a massive biography that dwarfs all other studies of the fourth U.S. President. When Volume I appeared in 1941, Historian Henry Steele Commager predicted that Brant's work might become "one of the really important biographies in our literature." Pegging away (in Kissimmee, Fla.) at his 2,000,000 notes and his 12,000-card index of Madisonia, Author Brant hopes to finish the third and last volume...
Barnaby is running off a series of test matches between these players and several others from the '47 Varsity, but as yet he is making no definite predictions of next season's starting lineup. Either Backe or Brant are almost certain for the number one position, while at present Wightman and Pratt are battling it out for number three, but beyond that the field is wide open...